Yesterday we warned the Tame Apple Press would be spinning what were expected to be bad results and we were right.

The results were simply:

• Apple made much less than Wall Street expected.• IPad sales are disappearing faster than expected.• IWatch sales so pitiful that Apple did not want to announce them.• IPhone sales up, but dependent on a saturated and dying Chinese market which is about to turn.

But like we said yesterday that is not what the Tame Apple Press was going to say. These are results of a company which has run out of ideas and is coasting on the good name of a single product. Analysts were furious and shareholders dumped their shares believing that Apple has peaked.

But you would not get that if you read the papers this morning. Instead you hear how Apple made "boatloads of money" and it was incredible that Wall Street failed to understand how well Jobs' Mob was doing.

One of the saddest tries to baffle with bullshit came from Lance Ulanoff at Mashable who tried to prove the iWatch was a success even though Apple was too embarrassed to announce the sales figures. Ulanoff managed to "prove" (and we use the term loosely) that Apple managed to sell slightly more than a million watches which he claimed proved it was a success.

The only problem was that Apple, Analysts and the Tame Apple Press were telling us that it would sell 40-60 million and even the most negative was saying 10 million.

Apple did better in China in this quarter than we expected. Apparently though most of its sales were in the cash rich and more western Hong Kong market rather than the poorer mainland. Signs from China are that both markets are saturated for high end smartphones. Besides the Chinese economy is depressed and fewer people have money. Even if Apple brings out a new phone, it will have a harder sell in China.

What the results do show is that Apple is now dependent on the iPhone and has nothing up its sleeve that can replace it. This is fine for now, if you see the glass as half-full and the Tame Apple Press does.

But we are seeing huge problems for smartphones in general and high end ones especially. China, which Apple depends on, is seeing high end phones being decimated by cheaper, lower margin phones which much do the same. These phones are filtering out to the West where they are also making more sense.Smartphones are widely predicted to go the same way as the PC market, once everything matures.

Apple fanboys are expecting something which Jobs' Mob always claimed – innovation. But Apple's problem here is that it is not an innovator, it is a copier and no one else has come up with something that could be the next big thing.

Wearables, the watch, was always going to be too niche, something that Tim Cook admitted yesterday. He said the watch did better than some in the company expected, in other words some in the company thought that no one would be stupid enough to buy it. Fortunately Apple found a million idiots who are stupid enough to buy a dog turd if it has an Apple logo on it.

These results are financially not bad, but they show a company that has stalled and has nowhere to go. Spinning that news by the Tame Apple Press to preserve the reality distortion field will not help Apple. It needs to get a grip on itself and come up with a better plan.

Big Content is using piracy take-downs on Google to spike bad reviews.

According to the Verge, British Recorded Music Industry (BPI) group listed a series of pages that it wanted removed from Google Search. Three of the requests pointed instead to reviews of Drake's album Take Care, one by The A.V. Club and one by About.com writer Henry Adaso.

Adaso wants to know how his review could be removed after a DMCA complaint. He thinks that it can only be because comments on both his 50-word article and that of The A.V. Club contain links to an extremely negative review and that Universal was trying to scrub mentions of it from the web.

The Verge thinks that this might have been a mistake but it doesn't reflect well on BPI or Universal, who clearly didn't look through their requests very closely. But it also shows an alarming trend from Google which says it plans to downrank sites that get too many take-down requests.

It is possible that some sites could effectively be kicked off the web if Big Content makes another mistake or, worse, starts doing it deliberately.

Confirming earlier rumors, Sony and Panasonic announced a partnership aimed at developing and mass producting OLED panels for large TVs and displays.

The companies claim they will develop OLED panels from own technologies, which should result in lower production costs. This would in turn make the panels more affordable for vendors interested in using them in future products.

It's well worth noting that the companies haven't had the best of times as of late. Indeed, Sony has confirmed plans to lay off 10,000 workers while Panasonic is planning on releasing half the staff at its HQ.

With many industry experts believing that OLED TVs are the future, Sony and Panasonic seem to have picked a wise way forward. Seeing as how the main downside to the current crop of OLED TVs is the prohibitively high price, perhaps the companies could even do something about it when they start mass production sometime next year.

Sony can’t be happy with the news that they only moved another 19,000 PC Vita units last week. While the company is busy spinning the fact that they have sold over 500,000 units, these numbers in our opinion make long-term success questionable at best.

The PS Vita needs software; that and that alone is the key right now, and Sony just does not have enough of it yet for the platform. With sinking sales, Sony might have to deploy a price cut just to keep units moving until more software is released.

If we go by the recent Nintendo experience with the 3DS, a price cut could happen sooner than Sony might like; Nintendo was forced into making this play when it only had sold about 1.3 million units. With the sales numbers that Sony is doing right now, it is going to take almost the rest of the year to reach the 1.3 million number.

Unless it gets off to a hot start in North America and Europe, we have to believe that a price cut is coming. This is evidenced by the lack of software that normally should be plentiful and available near launch time. Once again, the line-up and number of choices isn’t what Sony might like. It is all about software; and unless you are moving units, no developer is going to take the risk to produce software for it.

Software giant, Microsoft has patented a machine that can monitor the behavior of employees while also assigning positive or negative scores to everything they do.

According to GeekWire, the patent send the IT department a flag when someone who repeatedly cuts off colleagues during conversations, or warns when a supervisor who repeatedly bugs underlings during their lunch break. Such scoring would presumably rely upon subjective criteria set by the employer regarding what counts as “good” or “bad” work habits.

The range of possible monitored behaviours includes word phrases, body gestures, and mannerisms “such as wearing dark glasses in a video conference” or “wearing unacceptable clothing to a business meeting”. If Microsoft’s idea is adopted then workplace surveillance another step forward by creating software capable of analysing those human behaviours.

The idea is that workers might benefit from such monitoring software by getting feedback about their behaviour. In our experience workers want to be left alone and it is not helpful to point out what people do wrong.

RIM's new Playbook tablet is getting a caning from reviewers who think it is a bit of a rush job designed to get something in the market to counter the iPad. A lot of the brickbats are directed at the fact that the Playbook will not do anything useful, like email, unless it is hooked up to Blackberry.

Of course the most abuse comes from the New York Times which has sacrificed any shred of credibity it might have had by acting as Jobs' Mob's unpaid press office for years. New York Times' David Pogue wrote that RIM has just shipped a BlackBerry product that cannot do email. “It must be skating season in hell."

Of course he failed to mention that Apple has been shipping products that can't tell the time lately. But there does appear to be a fair bit wrong with the Playbook.

The Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg said that he had the strong impression RIM is scrambling to get the product to market and the PlayBook is a a tablet with a case of codependency. Stupidly the Playbook is priced as high as the iPad and while it is a lot more secure than the Jobs' Mob product the fact it has to be plugged into another device to do something as basic as email is insane.

Blackberry argues that it needs to do it this way to protect business customers and networks. It promises that it will offer secure email and other key services will come later, not at launch.

However it also handles Flash websites very well, there is a connected TV and multi-tasking of multimedia which are two things the iPad cannot manage.

A French health agency is warning that some types of LED lights are really bad for your eyes.

The National Health Security agency warns that the light scattered by the blue LEDs, used to give a white light, pose risks to the retina and may alter the pigments of retinal cells. In addition, this type of light would also have consequences on AMD, the macular degeneration age-related illness not the chipmaker and aggravating effects on other eye conditions.

The agency has warned consumers about three types of diodes and LEDs which it thinks are riskier than conventional lighting should be withdrawn. The agency also asked manufacturers to develop a labelling system on products using diodes to better inform consumers.

Not all LEDs are evil. All have advantages, including a low cost, low power consumption and long life and some do not make you blind, the watchdog barked.

Beyond knowing that DICE has been hard at work on the Vietnam expansion pack for Battlefield Bad Company 2 and a few rumors, little has come to light as to what this is all about. Apparently, we will not have to wait much longer, as Electronic Arts is planning to show off the Vietnam expansion during the Tokyo Game Show next week.

The Vietnam expansion back for Battlefield Bad Company 2 has been described as a major expansion release and not simply a re-hash of the Battlefield Vietnam title that was previously released. Although some have suggested that a re-visit to some of the maps from the previous Battlefield Vietnam game might not be a bad idea, DICE has not indicated that is planning to recycle any of the maps.

What we do know is that the Vietnam expansion will feature four additional maps with specific period Vietnam weapons and vehicles. New achievements and trophies will also be part of the expansion pack. A number of period music choices are confirmed to be on tap to rock though game play.

The release is still on track for later this year on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC platforms. It is expected that Electronic Arts and DICE will announce a release date during the showing at TGS, according to our sources. Despite many suggesting that EA and DICE might cave into a disc release, it is expected that the expansion pack will be a download-only offering.

If the Vietnam expansion pack is good, it could extend the life of Battlefield Bad Company 2 and deliver on EA’s strategy to extend the life of titles after release by selling additional DLC content. It does remain to be seen, however, if this strategy will pay off for EA, as the release of the expansion pack will come near the same time that the next release in the Call of Duty series drops; this could present a significant challenge to EA’s strategy.